[CentOS-devel] The CentOS Release Number Typography
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.orgFri Jun 6 08:23:39 UTC 2014
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On 06/06/2014 04:47 AM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-06-06, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: >> >> I think of release names as similar to DNS. Not all of us can memorize >> IP addresses. A release name is friendlier to other humans. :) > > The difficulty I have with release names is that, unlike IP addresses, > releases are ordered. I know that CentOS 6 came after CentOS 5. If > software says "requires CentOS Churro or higher", is CentOS Donut > sufficient? and unlike DNS, we dont have 4 Billion to consider ( and thats v4 ) and typicall shorter to type + machine processable. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
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